Development of CARTEEH Curriculum for Transportation Emissions and Health – Phase II

Introduction to Traffic Monitoring and Modeling

• 1. Transportation and land-use planning
• 2. Traffic measurement methods and data sources
• 3. Traffic modeling methods and data sources

Introduction to Traffic Emissions Monitoring and Modeling

• 1. Emission measurement / characterization methods and data sources 
• 2. Emission modeling methods and data sources 

Introduction to Air Pollution Monitoring and Modeling

• 1. Air pollution measurement methods and data sources 
• 2. Air pollution dispersion modeling methods and data sources 
• 3. Photochemical modeling methods and data sources (coming soon!)

Introduction to Air Pollution Exposure Assessment

• 1. Air pollution exposure 
• 2. Air pollution exposure assessment methods
• 3. Traffic-related air pollution exposure assessment methods

Air Pollution Exposure Assessment Methods

• 1. Air pollution dispersion modeling
• 2. Land-use regression modeling 
• 3. Exposure surrogates 
• 4. Personal monitoring in exposure assessment and the contribution of traffic
• 5. Source apportionment and micro-environmental exposures (coming soon!)

Epidemiological Studies, Designs, and Need for Exposure Indices

• 1. Introduction to air pollution epidemiology 
• 2. Observational descriptive epidemiological studies 
• 3. Observational analytical epidemiological studies
• 4. Experimental studies (coming soon!)
• 5. Prevalence, incidence, and measures of associations 
• 6. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses 

Evidence of the Effects of Traffic-Related Air Pollution Exposure on Human Health

• 1. Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—well-established evidence  
• 2. Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—emerging evidence 
• 3. Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—toxicological and mechanistic evidence 
• 4. Transferability of toxicological evidence and human relevance (coming soon!)
• 5. Biomarkers including OMICS (genomics, proteomics, or metabolomics) of health effects associated with traffic-related air pollution (coming soon!)
• 6. Sensitive subpopulations (children, the elderly, the ill, and lower socioeconomic classes) and differential health effects in sensitive subpopulations

• 1. Qualitative health impact assessment 
• 2. Quantitative health impact and burden of disease assessment
• 3. Undertaking health impact and burden of disease assessment of traffic-related air pollution—Part 1 
• 4. Undertaking health impact and burden of disease assessment of traffic-related air pollution—Part 2  
• 5. Reducing the impacts of traffic-related air pollution on health in policy and decision making 
• 6. Differential burden of disease of traffic-related air pollution in sensitive sub-populations (coming soon!)

Policies, Strategies, and Effectiveness

• 1. Transportation decision making — overview and process 
• 2. Transportation decision making — tools and methods
• 3. Option generation and policy selection 
• 4. Option generation tools 
• 5. Cost-effectiveness calculations and feasibility of policies (coming soon!)
• 6. Policies to mitigate traffic-related emissions
• 7. Policies to mitigate traffic-related air pollution (coming soon!)
• 8. Policies to mitigate traffic-related air pollution exposures (coming soon!)
• 9. Overlap with sustainable transportation and built environment policies (coming soon)
• 10. Barriers and facilitators (coming soon!)
• 11. Co-benefits

Emerging Technologies, Disruptors, and Market Solutions

• 1. Alternative and emerging technologies — connected and automated vehicles
• 2. Alternative and emerging technologies — shared mobility
• 3. Alternative and emerging technologies — zero and near-zero emission vehicles 
• 4. Alternative and emerging fuels
• 5. Implications to environmental justice
• 6. Market solutions (coming soon!)
• 7. Concluding inspirational talk—How do we make health a priority?